Resources

Ever Unfolding has been shaped by community wisdom and the grace of many beloveds. This is a short list of wisdom sources who have informed practices and worldview in ways that may also be of benefit to you:

  • The People's Institute for Survival & Beyond

    The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond is a multiracial, anti-racist collective of organizers and educators with the aim to undo racism and other forms of oppression, dedicated to building a movement for social transformation.

  • Women With A Vision

    Women With A Vision, Inc (WWAV) is a community-based nonprofit, founded in 1989 by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color.

    Over the last 25 years, WWAV has become New Orleans’ premier women’s health organization combining service and advocacy to address the social conditions and injustices that impact New Orleans's most targeted women.

  • Taproot Earth

    Taproot Earth builds power and cultivates solutions among frontline communities advancing climate justice and democracy.

  • The Adaway Group

    The Adaway Group is a black woman-owned firm that provides consulting and training services in the areas of race equity, inclusion, social justice, strategic planning, and organizational change.

  • The Wildseed Society

    The WildSeed Society's mission is to help us get free from capitalism and domination. To do that, we are cultivating a spiritual community that supports activists and organizers in Movement:

    Rebels holding the line of defense and buying us time to get out

    Nurturers seeding and growing the future we can move into

    So we can all get our needs met with dignity and in caring community.

  • Community Book Center

    Community Book Center is more than just a bookstore, we are a social hub of the Seventh Ward and your support allows us to continue to host local events and feature African-centered books, art, fabric, jewels and an assortment of gifts and trinkets. Going strong for four decades, CBC has been the oldest, and sometimes the only, Black bookstore in the New Orleans area.

Celebrating Community Creations

  • All the Pieces Fit: A Book of Collage and Poems

    JeKaren Olaoya (who is a part of the Beloved Conversations team)

  • Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Woman, Labor, and Environmental Ethics

    Sofía Bentancourt

  • Morning Thoughts become Daily Things

    Denise L. Graves

  • Spilling the Light

    Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto

  • Breaking and Blessing

    Sean Parker Dennison

  • Care for the World: Reflections on Community Ministry

    Rev. Erin Walter (Executive Director of TXUUJM)

  • Encounters: Poems about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity

    Edited by Paula Cole Jones (facilitator of Jubilee Three Anti-Racism Training)

  • A Long Time Blooming

    Marta I. Valentín